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67,000 tickets given out, 80% of them free. 12 and up have to show proof of vaccination to get in. the mayor calls the concert historic, celebration for a city that s overcome incredible challenges in the last year. the mayor teamed up with producer clive davis to produce tonight s show that includes andrea bow check ee, ll cool j, jennifer hudson taking the stage. paul simon, no stranger to concerts in central park, having performed two on the great lawn. and the boss, bruce springsteen will be performing as well. we wait to start a big show. want to check in with reporters on the ground in central park. erica hill tracking tonight s music headlines. what do you expect? it is a great lineup to put it mildly. you hit on some of them, anderson. there are folks in the pen to my left excited about andrea bocelli and the boss. it is a city as diverse as the city of new york itself. a lot of hometown love, a lot of new york artists and artists from all over. that plays to ....
hospitals where beds were scarce. thankfully, thankfully, courage and professionalism were not. it is not marked down anywhere officially. the fight back against the virus began the first time a nurse turned her mask inside out. we remember that. for protection, she wore a garbage bag over her scrubs. at the time, guys, they didn t have ppe because if you didn t know, nothing, and i do mean nothing, comes between a nurse and their duties. grocery store employees, thank you. health care professionals, thank you. the police, nypd here in full force, i was so glad to see them tonight. thank you, thank you, thank you, nypd. other essential workers took their stations on the front lines. next and slowly, new yorkers began to do what we do. we find a way. you know we were once the epicenter of the virus. now we moved to being epicenter of the recovery. so it brings us to this humid, sticky august night. a storm is on the way, but we re good! we gather for a common purpose to ....
town. this is the first african-american mortuary in the state of alabama. um, they originally opened in the 1880s and they built this building in the 1900s. but the real story is mrs. alan. um, she started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s. it was called josephine allen institute because, again, in the 1800s, before the emancipation proclamation, it was against the law for african-americans to be educated. so, after the emancipation proclamation, schools just started opening everywhere. and she opened one to to educate young african-americans. but this family, actually, came to mobile from virginia. so, they were never slaves. they were free. and they were somewhat elite because they had a big home down near dolphin island. and they had a big home in the city. well, in the 1880s and 90s, most african-americans had shotgun homes, unfortunately, but that was the way it was. well, they had a lot of friends. and some of their friends were people like bo ....
offer public comment by calling the public comment phone number. i would like to welcome the numbers of the public and staff watching live on sfgovtv. mr. secretary, could you please call the roll today. thank you, prior to calling roll i would like to welcome alisha john baptiste and diane shaw the ac transit representative and chang is setting in and the director has a scheduling conflict and will not be present. please respond when i call your name. chang. here. forbes. here. john baptiste. here. lipkin. present. shaw. here. tumlin. present. vice chair gee. present. we have a quorum. i will call your next item. item 3. communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment. to provide public comment dial to the published number. 18552826330 and enter access code (182)585-8053. pound pound and listen as you wait for public comment to be announced. members of the public have three minutes for each item. i ....
and that, you know, that they re seriously looking at their work orders, and they re not just, you know they re going to i guess they have to justify this. i mean, but how do they yeah, yeah. i mean, i m kind of probably getting ahead of myself here. but if we have a continuation of this type of road map of finances here for the next couple of years or so, you know, how these work orders are actually going to be vetted, is very important to me, you know. and justified. and because i don t see where we could do a lot of changes on our side where actually the expenditures are. to me, i look at the work orders as the next area we could save money so that, you know, our rainy day fund isn t depleted faster than we want you know? so that s my comments on that. thank you, taras, for entertaining me on that. thank you, commissioner. president mccarthy: okay. with that, unless there s further questions from our commissioners, is there? i don t see any. i can t see any ....